Grover Pro

This app sets a standard on how universal Windows 10 apps should be made. It is such a smooth experience from start to finish. Clean and simple, it makes listening to podcasts a religion that you want to worship. I would love to pay the developer even more than the $3 it costs. The effort is to teach to app developers in general. Keep up the great work. Microsoft, buy this app and make it the official Podcast app for Windows 10. The current official app is a disgrace and old to say the least. Well done; well done.

This is getting closer to what I wish the official Microsoft Podcasts app would be like...but that's never been updated for W10 Mobile, let alone been made into a universal app for non-mobile devices (and since PocketCasts seems to have jumped ship before really getting on, there goes that option). Anyway, I ran into this particular issue recently after having to reset my phone. Having been a user of this app for a while now, I sync the settings to the cloud. After resetting my phone, I sync the settings and podcasts, and the app did not start auto-downloading the podcasts which were set to do so. Please fix. Suggestion (maybe as a setting option): the ability to *only* refresh the feeds of Auto-Download enabled podcasts on startup, rather than every. Single. Podcast. As someone subscribed to over 60 podcasts, this is extremely frustrating. Another addition would be that if I go to a podcast that isn't set to auto-download, it should only then check that feed for new episodes.

This is by far the best podcast app. I just wish there was some indication of which episodes were already listened to. I know you can use the filter but id rather have them grayed out or something.

Pro's: Very good at finding podcasts. Even gets full episode list from some that only show last 10 on other apps. Cons: Poor download management without manual intervention. Not able to tell it to play oldest episodes first, and then just choose play on an entire podcast. Just takes a lot of manual work to get it to play the episodes I want. Just completely stopped working. Would not play anything even after a phone reboot. Will re-install as I feel it has potential. However, as it is in Beta and is indeed still a work in progress, it should be free right now.